Iran’s High Council of Virtual Spaces Bans Pokémon GO

We’ve seen plenty of good, bad, and weird things that have come out of the worldwide augmented reality game Pokémon GO, including murder and location-based bans, but nothing on a large scale. That was, of course, until Iran decided to ban the game country-wide.

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Iran’s High Council of Virtual Spaces rendered the decision, vaguely citing security concerns as their reasoning. The BBC offers up a presumptive explanation:

A leading Saudi cleric said a fatwa (religious ruling) issued against an earlier Pokemon card game also applied… more